Beware: Internet Traffic Scam

by Sharon Hassler, Founder/Webmaster, GoGetNotary.com

There’s a huge push on right now from a company called DotlessDomain.com. They have a clever demo they’ll walk you through on their site. They’ll ask you to do a search with a prime keyword, and, SURPRISE, a split screen appears with Google search results on the bottom and your web page/website at the top. They’ll point out how many other sites Google is reporting for that keyword (upper right of Google screen) and that you’ll be ahead of millions of other sites. Then they’ll repeat this with several more
keywords. It’s a beauty of a demo! The oh-so-passionate salesperson will
repeat your first name every 6th word (that keeps it personal) and offer
to get you a great deal reserving those keywords, but, oh, hold on, he or
she wants the best deal for you, so has to first speak with a supervisor.
(Remember the last time you bought a new car?) Then the supervisor will
get on the phone to make you a really special deal because this
salesperson recommended it. (This is classic stuff! You can hear all the
other salepeople talking in the background—must be a big boiler room!)

So here’s the promise, your site will be available to 30 million opt-in
people using the dotlessdomain toolbar. They promise you’ll get at least
20 to 30,000 hits a month and it’s only going to cost you about $1,900 PER
KEYWORD to cover the next six months. Such a deal, huh?

Here’s the truth: No one can promise a specific number of hits unless they have a big operation, probably in India or the Philippines, programmed to
visit (hit) your site for a split second over and over everyday. So when
anyone tells you they guarantee hits, be very suspicious. One complaint
about this company posted on ripoff.com said all the hits to his site were
coming from 6 IP address, in other words, 6 offices somewhere in the world
or maybe 1 office with 6 IP addresses, not 30,000 unique potential
customers.

The “supervisor” wasn’t happy that I didn’t cough up my credit card and
asked me why I took his time and his salesperson’s time if I wasn’t
interested in “becoming successful and increasing my business.” I told him
I always listen to new ideas about web traffic for our sites and to pass on
to our site members BUT while I’m listening, I also do a Google search for
the company’s name plus the word “scam” to see what shows up. The
“supervisor” hung up on me! Imagine! How rude!

So if you hear from this company or any other promising numbers too good to be true, enjoy the sales pitch if it’s entertaining, and then you hang
up!

©Copyright Sharon Hassler. All rights reserved. Sharon Hassler, Founder/Webmaster for GoGetNotary.com, is a former loan officer, real estate agent and marketing consultant. She served as Communications Manager for First American Title-Arizona for 11 years. For more about Sharon, visit GoGetNotary.com/Get/Sharon.